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History Matters

@historymatters · The channel on YouTube

In short

History Matters has 1,920,000 subscribers and 808,456,497 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 2,240,946 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Why did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Animated Documentary)", with 1,126,024 views. By subscribers it is No. 1,476 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 30 of 96 in category "Explainers, history and education".

The numbers today

subscribers
1,920,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
808,456,497
▲ 2,240,946 in the last 7 days
views a day (current pace)
200,368
on a typical day: 277,435
Videos on the channel
397
2 uploaded in the last 30 days
Last upload
8 days ago
October 16, 2026
Views per subscriber
421
a new long video usually gets 689,188 views
Next milestone
2,000,000 subscribers
80,000 subscribers to go

What happened lately

October 3, 2026 passed 1M views Why did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Ani… The video passed 1,000,000 views.

The video drawing the most views now

Why did Germany and the USSR sign the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact? (Short Animated Documentary)Why did Germany and the USSR sign the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact? (Short Animated Documentary)
Video published
October 16, 2026
Video views so far
762,326
Video views, pace per day
9,437
Views on its first day
453,707

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Position on Trari and in the category

Among all channels on TrariIn the category Explainers, history and education
By subscribers1,476 of 5,38730 of 96
By views gained this week1,952 of 5,29525 of 96

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category
0.8% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education

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14Tom Scott
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30History Matters
1,920,000

Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education

1BradyYourTutor
86,660,870
2TEDx Talks
14,011,783
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13,039,554
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9hoser
5,988,578
10Extra History
5,782,986
11TED
5,710,955
12CrashCourse
4,365,387
133Blue1Brown
4,254,456
25History Matters
2,240,946

Subscribers, last 30 days

1,920,000 September 26, 2026: 1,920,000 1,920,000 September 26, 2026 October 24, 2026

September 26, 2026: 1,920,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 1,920,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)

Total views, last 30 days

808,456,497 804,650,904 800,845,312 October 24, 2026: 808,456,497 808,456,497 September 26, 2026: 800,845,312 800,845,312 September 26, 2026 October 24, 2026

September 26, 2026: 800,845,312 views → October 24, 2026: 808,456,497 views · average: 271,828 views a day

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

VideoUploadedLengthViewsPer dayFirst dayLikesComments
Why did Germany and the USSR sign the Molotov Ribbentrop Pa…October 16, 20269:07762,3269,437453,70719,4141,405
Why did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Animated Docu…September 25, 20269:201,126,0243,110530,59222,998950
Why did Britain join WW1? (Short Animated Documentary)August 31, 20269:001,287,8862,118-23,5281,197
Why didn't the Dutch also scramble Africa? (Short Animated …August 16, 20268:10639,9662,789-24,8821,279
Why did the Treaty of Versailles Fail? (Short Animated Docu…July 20, 20268:34456,698939-22,0461,319
When did the Cold War actually start? (Short Animated Docum…June 30, 20269:33492,6031,359-23,6871,316
Why wasn't Japan allowed to keep Taiwan after WW2? (Short A…June 13, 20268:50554,0681,616-24,6191,454
Why did the Spanish choose to fight the USA in 1898? (Short…May 30, 20268:21635,8701,351-26,6542,378
Why didn't Germany stop expanding in 1939? (Short Animated …May 14, 20268:571,430,2851,738-41,6693,749
Why didn't the other Central Powers have to pay reparations…May 3, 20268:41628,264530-29,2931,865
Why didn't the Boers ever unite against the British? (Short…April 19, 20268:34689,1881,239-28,7451,881
Why wasn't Teddy Roosevelt allowed to fight in World War On…March 27, 20268:14644,0901,220-31,0471,743
Why couldn't the Mongols conquer Japan? (Short Animated Doc…March 3, 20268:52705,372858-33,5851,584
Why did Mao win the Chinese Civil War?February 7, 20268:23967,6921,424-39,2173,698
Why did Austria-Hungary do so poorly in World War One? (Sho…January 9, 20268:461,071,8081,607-41,8672,417

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views
35.8 in the category: 20.8
comments per 1,000 views
2.3 in the category: 1.3
short vs long
0 short (up to 3 minutes), 15 long
average views per long video: 806,142

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Most watched Shorts

VideoUploadedLengthViews
Why was Napoleon exiled to Elba?July 4, 20230:432,356,196

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

  1. MilestoneWhy did Charles V split up his empire? (Short Ani… The video passed 1,000,000 views.
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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